I think that with RPM (and dpkg too) the program just wants the NAME of the
package and NOT the version info too. Did you try just saying 'rpm -e
AfterStep'? Failing that, keep adding stuff to the line:
rpm -e AfterStep-1.4.5.3-2
rpm -e AfterStep-1.4.5.3-2.i386
and so on...
--John Gruenenfelder
Elrond, Duke of URL -- http://www.azstarnet.com/~elrond
elrond@azstarnet.com -- johng@aquarius.as.arizona.edu
"This is the most fun I've had without being drenched in the
blood of my enemies!"
-Sam of Sam & Max
On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Ron Thompson wrote:
>Alrighty, I'm all ready to install the 1.5Beta1, but I'm stuck at the same point
>I was last time I tried to upgrade.
>I'm trying to uninstall my old Afterstep package, but this is what happens:
>
>[root@localhost ~/rpms]# rpm -e AfterStep-1.4.5.3-2.i386.rpm
>package AfterStep-1.4.5.3-2.i386.rpm is not installed
>[root@localhost ~/rpms]# rpm -i AfterStep-1.4.5.3-2.i386.rpm
>package AfterStep-1.4.5.3-2 is already installed
>error: AfterStep-1.4.5.3-2.i386.rpm cannot be installed
>[root@localhost ~/rpms]#
>
>What is up with that? Last time I eventually just ran a query on the package
>to show all files and piped that into rm -f, which worked... then, when the
>database was still messed up saying it was still installed, I accidentally (big
>dummy), piped the file list into rm -rf.... ooops...
>Now, not wanting to even try that again, can someone suggest an easy way to
>remove all possible traces of Afterstep from my system so I can install
>1.5Beta1?
>Thanks! 8-)
> -Ron (yahoo@mindless.com)
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